One Woman, One Vote Rediscovering the Women's Suffrage Movement
by Wheeler, Marjorie SpruillFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-08-15
Publisher(s): NewSage Press
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Summary
The companion book to the PBS documentary by the same name, this anthology is the most comprehensive collection of writings--contemporary and historical--on the woman suffrage movement in America. It includes essays by the most prominent contemporary historians who write on the topic, as well as some fascinating historical pieces written by women in the suffrage movement during the 19th century. Photos. Maps.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: A Short History of the Woman Suffrage Movement in America | p. 9 |
| "Ourselves and Our Daughters Forever": Women and the Constitution, 1787-1876 | p. 21 |
| The Seneca Falls Convention From the History of Woman Suffrage, 1881 | p. 37 |
| A Feminist Friendship: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | p. 45 |
| White Women's Rights, Black Men's Wrongs, Free Love, Blackmail, and the Formation of the American Woman Suffrage Association | p. 61 |
| Taking the Law Into Our Own Hands: Bradwell, Minor, and Suffrage Militance in the 1870s | p. 81 |
| How the West Was Won for Woman Suffrage | p. 99 |
| Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Conversion to Woman Suffrage | p. 117 |
| African American Women and the Woman Suffrage Movement | p. 135 |
| The Suffrage Renaissance: A New Image for a New Century, 1896-1910 | p. 157 |
| Jane Addams, Progressivism, and Woman Suffrage: An Introduction to "Why Women Should Vote" | p. 179 |
| Why Women Should Vote | p. 179 |
| "Better Citizens Without the Ballot": American Anti-suffrage Women and Their Rationale During the Progressive Era | p. 203 |
| Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909 | p. 221 |
| A Politics of Coalition: Socialist Women and the California Suffrage Movement, 1900-1911 | p. 245 |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago | p. 263 |
| Alice Paul and the Triumph of Militancy | p. 277 |
| Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist | p. 295 |
| Minnie Fisher Cunningham's Back Door Lobby in Texas: Political Maneuvering in a One-Party State | p. 315 |
| Armageddon in Tennessee: The Final Battle Over the Nineteenth Amendment | p. 333 |
| Across the Great Divide: Women in Politics Before and After 1920 | p. 353 |
| Appendix One: The Electoral Thermometer: Woman Suffrage Won by State Constitutional Amendments and Legislative Acts Before the Proclamation of the Nineteenth Amendment | p. 375 |
| Appendix Two: Chronology of Congressional Action | p. 378 |
| The Contributors | p. 379 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 382 |
| Index | p. 384 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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